> P.S. What is your avatar - some sort of crystal?
> -Richard***

Sie waren hat nah mein avatar Glas darin!!

Richard, zuerst erbärmlich für mein armes Deutsch, nicht gesprächig, aber hofft, daß Sie verstehen. Ich stimme mit viele von Ihren Ausgaben um das Punktsystem überein, aber auf einem offenen Ausschußposten Sie können nicht sagen, was Sie die ganze Zeit fühlen. Wenn ich verstehe Sie, daß richtig, ja viele Verbraucher wie Kinder sich benehmen, und sind Punkte wahnsinnig. Meiner Meinung nach größtenteils von Ihren Nachbarn über dem Randsüden von Ihnen;) ich kann verstehen Ihren Glauben im Projekt von einem wissenschaftlichen Blick, und dies wird von ein paar Idioten verdorben.

Gutes Glück (hoffe ich, daß Sie dies) verstehen

Willie Grüße von Schottland (wieder)

Yeti, that looks like a fun group! I am looking forward to my trip to northern Germany next week (two days for a conference in Hamburg, then I hope to get to the "Hanseatic League" towns Bremen, Lübeck, etc).

> Yeti, that looks like a fun group! I am looking forward to my trip to
> northern Germany next week (two days for a conference in Hamburg, then I hope
> to get to the "Hanseatic League" towns Bremen, Lübeck, etc).

Would like to join you Carl (too old now for fun groups - lol), but i'm off to hurricane alley next week, my hope is that Ivan has sidestepped my hotel ?

Willie

> Yeti, that looks like a fun group! I am looking forward to my trip to
> northern Germany next week (two days for a conference in Hamburg, then I hope
> to get to the "Hanseatic League" towns Bremen, Lübeck, etc).
>
>

Carl, yes, Nordlichter have a lot of fun. If you have to visit Düsseldorf or Cologne, let me know. Perhaps, we can have a cold, lovely bear together ...

<a href="http://www.boinc.dk/index.php?page=user_statistics&amp;project=cpdn&amp;userid=34"><img border="0" height="080" src="http://34.cpdn.sig.boinc.dk?188"></a>

Supporting <b>BOINC</b>, because it is really a <b>great concept !</b>

&gt; ***Ist es verboten?***
"No"
&gt;
&gt;
&gt; Howdy Willy:
&gt;
Hallo Richard

Meine Grammatik ist nicht gut, wenn ich, besser zu sprechen ja schreibe. Ich war in Deutschland für 3 Jahre, nah Iserlohn (Hemer) Westfallen, großes Land, große Autos, große Leute. Erbärmlich Ihre Familie ist auf gespalten, denke ich, daß ich das Religionproblem, nicht gut ebenso verstehe. Schottland hat das gleiche Problem mit dem England, über 300 Jahren von Verfolgung gehabt und es geht noch weiter. Ich habe in England für 12 Jahre gelebt und bin auf Schottland vor 2 Jahren zurückgegangen, habe ich genug ja gehabt!

Ich bin zu beschäftigt gewesen, schickend E-mails bevor ich im Urlaub gehe, gehe ich nächste Woche nach Kuba aber, Familie zuerst morgen, gut verlasse zu besuchen, auf deutsch mit Ihnen, mit schlechter Grammatik zu sprechen.

Hinter in 3 Wochen, knirscht hart. ....

PS -- in defense of my "mobile phone stats" -- I find it very handy to make sure my computers are running. I also have a similar page for overall CPDN stats to make sure the servers haven't crashed etc! :-)

Ja Richard,
Ist am meisten geworden, von was Sie gesagt haben, probably quicker for me to finish in english. I have been tracking Ivan here also http://hurricane.terrapin.com/ latest direction shows it could be heading Havana way, were going to Varadero but it's sure to cause damage which way it heads, we last visited in 97 around the same time of the year and it was ok, can't predict the weather though (sorry CPDN, no pun intended).

Glad for the chat (with my poor german), even though we went a bit off topic, as I said better to speak it than write but everyone has that problem, but at least try huh!

By the way the avatar that I was talking about I tested here: http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=4007 this is an actual view from my upper front bedroom looking at the Buchanness Lighthouse, so the (crystal) glass was in the lighthouse ;) but not a crystal ball as I think you were hinting at?

Anyway i'm off to bed now (well in 5 mins), final packing to do in the morning, will catch up with you on my return to the project around 2/3 Oct, good talking to you.

Kind Regards

Willie,
Greets from Scotland etc.
Lat: 57.46N Lon: 1.77W

well the "User Map" has no practical applications either, as does the "mobile phone stats", but I figure they're both fun and relatively easy to make, and any "gimmick" helps on a project!

PS -- what is the German for "trickle?"

&gt;***Perhaps but I doubt many agree. I gather you've not been reading the
&gt;commentary at SetiBOINC?***

Yeah but that's mainly people complaining about BOINC troubles, i.e. servers down/no workunits, and thinking that BOINC "wasted time" working on "mobile phone stats" when in reality it's something I did (far out of the "mainstream BOINC" work) on the side just for fun. So it's just a misunderstanding; and not fair to blame the BOINC guys for that (or me --- it was just 15 minutes I wasted :-). I think they're too "mean" to the BOINC team (but my opinion is biased!)

"rieseln" for "trickle" I like that, reminds me of my favorite chocolate "Riesen!" :-)

nono, storck riesen simply taste gigantic. ;-)

does storck sell in the u.s., too?

&gt; nono, storck riesen simply taste gigantic. ;-)
&gt; does storck sell in the u.s., too?

yes, we gigantic Americans like them! :-)